hi, a while ago I saw the response to this post advising: "you better say where you are -- we have enough hungry artists here" -- what happened to this one? Got censored out? For being so welcoming?

anyway, Cory, if you are younger than 25 and have 20-25 years left to build up your artistic career, if you don't mind working for free and having your work judged by dilettantes who knows nothing about art, or if you have kids that you want to raise in safe environment you will be welcome in Portland, OR. Otherwise (if you really have to abandon where you are now) -- Dogville is a better choice...